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For those who are curious, it's called "Box Breathing" because, if it's helpful for you, you can picture a box and then trace the edges of the box in your mind as you're counting for each of the 4 steps (inhale, hold, exhale, hold). That visual can help take your mind off whatever is making you do this in the first place.


Thanks for sharing that since I did not know the reason for the name.

But a box is a cube. Since there are four steps, shouldn’t it be called square breathing?


"Box" is used often enough in natural english to refer to a square, particularly in the context of diagrams. "Draw a box around it", etc.


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A 3d box is a cube, a 2d box is a square.


Does tesseract count as box too? ;)


In parallel computing, similar topologies are known as the Hypercube architecture. And in English, "boxes" can refer to computers or networking devices in general, so yes? ;-)


> But a box is a cube

only for some definitions of box




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